Re: [Boost-build] shallow rebuild

From: Jaroslav Gresula (jgresula_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-08 16:53:50

Phillip Seaver wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote, on 1/8/2007 3:26 PM:
>> On Monday 08 January 2007 23:23, Jaroslav Gresula wrote:
>>   
>>> Chris Weed wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Doesn't the following do what you want?
>>>> bjam clean TARGET
>>>> bjam TARGET
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Probably yes, but I would prefer single bjam invocation as this use case 
>>> is quite frequent for me.
>>>     
>> I would expect 
>>
>> 	bjam --clean TARGET
>>
>> to clean everything involved in constructing TARGET, not just the top-level
>> results.
>>
>> - Volodya
>>   
> 
> "bjam --clean-all TARGET" does that.  "--clean" used to, but someone 
> added "--clean-all" and changed the behavior of the clean target.  (I 
> prefer the new behavior)
> 
> Out of curiosity, why do you want/need to completely rebuild a target 
> frequently?

You made me think about it a bit deeper and I realized that I actually 
don't need it at all for my particular use case.

Sorry for noise.

Jarda.